David Hinchliffe
MASTER ARTIST
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MEDIUMS: Oil | Acrylic
SPECIALTY: ✔ Generalist
In a painting career spanning over 50 years, David Hinchliffe has had enormous commercial success. With more than 100 solo exhibitions including paintings, sculpture and photographs in locations around the world, he is represented by 13 galleries and dealers in London, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore and cities throughout Australia.
His painting style has been described as “contemporary impressionism”. His subjects are principally streetscapes, landscapes and figurative work.
He has a unique painting process which he shares at workshops around the world. He paints from dark to light, creating figures and form by painting negative space. While he worked for most of his career in oils, he changed to acrylics 6 years ago.
He believes anyone can paint if they have the right attitude and learn the ‘tricks’ of art.“Painting is magic. All magic is trickery and anyone can learn it. The key is attitude and persistence,” he says.
David has been painting, exhibiting and selling his work in galleries since the age of 12. He has won numerous competitions as a young artist (Sunday Mail Art Prize, ABC Argonauts Award, Atlantic City Sculpture Award, Gemini prize).
David has travelled and painted widely in Australia, US, UK, Europe, Bali, Sri Lanka, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore. He has conducted numerous workshops in Australia, Europe, Asia and the US.
David’s EXPERTISE
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Specialty: ✔ Generalist
Technical:
Color and Composition
Technique Demos
Teaching How to Self Critique
Providing Art Critiques
Marketing:
Shows & Exhibits
Business:
Pricing Artwork
Running Your Art Business the Day to Day
Studio Time Management
“Mastrius has done wonders for my confidence. I have managed to step way outside of my comfort zone which has in turn given rise to so many more opportunities to further my art career.”
~ Deb, Emerging Artist
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MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST
Since his first solo exhibition in 1976 in Toowoomba Australia at the age of 21, David has had more than 60 solo exhibitions including paintings, sculpture and photographs in locations around the world.
Australian Artist David Hinchliffe has been painting, exhibiting and selling his work in galleries since the age of 12. He has won numerous competitions as a young artist (Sunday Mail Art Prize, ABC Argonauts Award, Atlantic City Sculpture Award, Toowoomba Gemini prize) and is a regular finalist in Tattersalls Landscape Prize.
David has travelled and painted widely in the United States and UK and is represented extensively in collections both in Australia and overseas. While his work is principally oils on canvas or linen, he has also produced many gouache works and sculpture as well as holding two exhibitions of his photographs (“Two to the Valley, 1992, and “Detours”, 2010). His style has been described as “contemporary impressionism”.
He trained under Brisbane artist, John Rigby, painting as a teenager with contemporaries Tomas McAulay and Rex Backhaus Smith and also studied under premier Australian landscape artist and Archibald prize-winner, William Robinson at the University of Southern Queensland.